EP0781033A2 - Faksimilegerät - Google Patents

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EP0781033A2
EP0781033A2 EP96309395A EP96309395A EP0781033A2 EP 0781033 A2 EP0781033 A2 EP 0781033A2 EP 96309395 A EP96309395 A EP 96309395A EP 96309395 A EP96309395 A EP 96309395A EP 0781033 A2 EP0781033 A2 EP 0781033A2
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/32—Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device
    • H04N1/327—Initiating, continuing or ending a single-mode communication; Handshaking therefor
    • H04N1/32797—Systems adapted to communicate over more than one channel, e.g. via ISDN
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/32—Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device
    • H04N1/327—Initiating, continuing or ending a single-mode communication; Handshaking therefor

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  • the present invention relates to a family of communications equipments having a plurality of lines, and more particularly to a facsimile apparatus.
  • the prior art techniques for facsimile apparatuses include the one described in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Disclosure HEI 5-219275, for example. Dual communication facsimile apparatuses as disclosed therein may be efficiently used, since the two lines may be used individually for transmission and reception at the same time.
  • a busy signal is produced whenever the telephone is dialed for additional conversation or facsimile transmission with the same end over a second line if a first line has already been occupied due to conversation or facsimile transmission.
  • the operator must wait until the receiver is freed from the busy state when the operator dials, whereas when the telephone is automatically controlled, it must be ready for redialing, which may result in the second line being reserved and prevent the line from being operated otherwise.
  • the invention provides a facsimile apparatus capable of simultaneously being connected to a plurality of lines, which allows dialing by the operator or automatic control by the apparatus over an idle line of the plurality of lines in cases where the apparatus has already been connected to another apparatus, for communication a operation for establishing a communication, by accessing or being accessed from the another apparatus, characterized by comprising:
  • the control means of the above facsimile apparatus is characterized by suspending the dialing until the previously established communication or operation for establishing a communication is terminated, and the connected line is freed.
  • the control means of the above facsimile apparatus is further characterized by being able to terminate the dialing operation.
  • the facsimile apparatus is equipped with reading means of reading a document image which is to be transmitted to a receiver; output means of printing received data (on a document) on a sheet of paper; means of feeding and forwarding the sheet, etc. in addition to a processing-controller unit which will be described below in detail with reference to Fig. 1.
  • 1) through 6) correspond to Fig. 2 through Fig. 7, respectively.
  • Fig. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a control operation according to the invention, wherein 1 indicates a controller unit, 2 is an input-number storage unit, 3 indicates an operator unit, 4 indicates a personal computer I/F unit, 5 is a transmitter-side information storage unit, 6 indicates a receiver unit, and 7 is a dial-information storage unit.
  • 8 is a line controller unit
  • 9 is a dialing unit
  • 10, 11 and 12 are a display unit, buzz unit and voice-processing unit, respectively.
  • 13 is a communication-management-data storage unit.
  • the data on the subscriber number of the receiver connected over line 1 is stored in the dial information storage unit 7 of the apparatus.
  • the data on the number input by the operator with the operator unit 3 is stored in the input-number storage unit 2 on a digit-by-digit basis.
  • the controller unit 1 compares the two data on a digit-by-digit basis starting with the first digits (S201 through S207).
  • control codes such as a pause code which have no direct relationship with the telephone numbers, when found, are skipped, and the next digit is considered in the comparison.
  • the controller unit 1 finds the first mismatching digit, on judging that the destination number is not the same, the data stored in the input-number storage unit is sent to the dialing unit 9 (S212) which in turn issues a command matching the received data to the line controller unit 8, and a signal matching the received command is output to line 2 from the line controller unit 8.
  • the comparison for the data on the number input by the operator is terminated.
  • the controller unit 1 erases the data stored in the input-number storage unit 2, without sending it to the dialing unit 9, and notifies the display unit 10, the buzz unit 11 and the voice-processing unit 12 that the apparatus has already been connected to the receiver, and the respective stations perform their own processing depending on the notification (S208 through S210).
  • the data on the subscriber number of the receiver connected over line 1 is stored in the dial information storage unit 7 of the apparatus.
  • the controller unit 1 accesses the communication management data storage unit 13 and finds a communication to be carried out, the data on the destination number of the communication is read from the communication management data storage unit 13 and is compared with the data stored in the dial information storage unit 7 (S301 through S307).
  • control codes such as a pause code which have no direct relationship with the telephone numbers, when found, are skipped, and the next digit is considered in the comparison.
  • the controller unit 1 finds the first mismatching digit, on judging that the destination number is not the same, the data on the destination number which is stored in the communication management storage unit 13 is sent to the dial unit 9 (S311) which in turn issues a command matching the received data to the line controller unit 8, and a signal matching the received command is output to line 2 from the line controller unit 8.
  • the controller unit 1 waits until line 1 is freed, without carrying out the communication (S308 through S309).
  • the data on the subscriber number of the receiver connected over line 1 is stored in the dial information storage unit 7 of the apparatus.
  • the data on the dial received from the personal computer is stored in the input-number storage unit 2 via the personal computer I/F unit 4.
  • the controller unit 1 compares the data with the data stored in the dial information storage unit 7 (S401 through S407).
  • control codes such as a pause code which have no direct relationship with the telephone numbers, when found, are skipped, and the next digit is considered in the comparison.
  • the controller unit 1 finds the first mismatching digit, on judging that the destination number is not the same, the data stored in the input-number storage unit 2 is sent to the dial unit 9 (S411) which in turn issues a command corresponding to received data to the line controller unit 8, and a signal corresponding to the received command is output to line 2 from the line controller unit 8.
  • the controller unit 1 erases the data stored in the input-number storage unit 2, without sending it to the dialing unit 9, and sends a signal indicating that the line is busy to the personal computer via the personal computer I/F unit 4 (S408 through S409).
  • the information on the other end connected over line 1 which has been initiated by the other end is received from the other end and stored in the transmitter-side information storage unit 5 via the receiver unit 6.
  • the data on the number input by the operator with the operator unit 3 is stored in the input-number storage unit 2 on a digit-by-digit basis.
  • the controller unit 1 compares the two data on a digit-by-digit basis starting with the first digits (S501 through S507).
  • control codes such as a pause code which have no direct relationship with the telephone numbers, when found, are skipped, and the next digit is considered in the comparison.
  • the controller unit 1 finds the first mismatching digit, on judging that the destination number is not the same, the data stored in the input-number storage unit 2 is sent to the dialing unit 9 (S511) which in turn issues a command corresponding to the received data to the line controller unit 8, and a signal corresponding to the received command is output to line 2 from the line controller unit 8. No further comparison is made for the data on the number input by the operator.
  • the controller unit 1 erases the data stored in the input-number storage unit 2, without sending it to the dialing unit 9, notifies the display unit 10, the buzz unit 11 and the and the voice-processing unit 12 that the apparatus has already been connected to the receiver, and the respective units perform their own processing depending on the notification (S508 through S510).
  • the information on the other end connected over line 1 which has been initiated by the other end is received from the other end and stored in the transmitter-side information storage unit 5 via the receiver unit 6.
  • the controller unit 1 accesses the communication management data storage unit 13 and finds a communication to be carried out, the data on the destination number of the communication is read from the communication management data storage unit 13 and is compared with the data stored in the transmitter side-information storage unit 5 (S601 through S607).
  • control codes such as a pause code which have no direct relationship with the telephone numbers, when found, are skipped, and the next digit is considered in the comparison.
  • the controller unit 1 finds the first mismatching digit, on judging that the destination number is not the same, the data on the destination number which is stored in the communication management storage unit 13 is sent to the dialing unit 9 (S611) which in turn issues a command corresponding to the received data to the line controller unit 8, and a signal corresponding to the received command is output to line 2 from the line controller unit 8.
  • the controller unit 1 waits until line 1 is freed, without carrying out the communication (S608 through S609).
  • the information on the other end connected over line 1 which has been initiated by the other end is received from the other end and stored in the transmitter-side information storage unit 5 via the receiver unit 6.
  • the data on the dial received from the personal computer is stored in the input-number storage unit 2 via the personal computer I/F unit 4.
  • the controller unit 1 compares the data with the data stored in the transmitter-side information storage unit 5 (S701 through S707).
  • control codes such as a pause code which have no direct relationship with the telephone numbers, when found, are skipped, and the next digit is considered in the comparison.
  • the controller unit 1 finds the first mismatching digit, on judging that the destination number is not the same, the data stored in the input-number storage unit 2 is sent to the dialing unit 9 (S711) which in turn issues a command corresponding to the received data to the line controller unit 8, and a signal corresponding to the received command is output to line 2 from the line controller unit 8.
  • the controller unit 1 erases the data stored in the input-number storage unit 2, without sending it to the dialing unit 9, and sends a signal indicating that the line is busy to the personal computer via the personal computer I/F unit 4 (S708 through S709).
  • the subscriber number of the other end connected on a first line is compared with the subscriber number which the apparatus is going to dial on a second line, and when the numbers are found to be the same, the result of the comparison is notified to the operator, and the dialing is not performed or delayed until the already established connection is disconnected, thus improving the usability of the apparatus.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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  • Facsimiles In General (AREA)
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EP96309395A 1995-12-20 1996-12-20 Faksimilegerät Expired - Lifetime EP0781033B1 (de)

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JP33166195A JP3220632B2 (ja) 1995-12-20 1995-12-20 ファクシミリ装置
JP33166195 1995-12-20
JP331661/95 1995-12-20

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EP0781033A2 true EP0781033A2 (de) 1997-06-25
EP0781033A3 EP0781033A3 (de) 1999-03-17
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CA2193186C (en) 2000-10-17
JP3220632B2 (ja) 2001-10-22
DE69631642D1 (de) 2004-04-01
DE69631642T2 (de) 2004-12-23
JPH09172533A (ja) 1997-06-30

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